DAMN! GBH Drops PBS HD Channel

"Rick Evans" wrote in message
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Just like that. WGBH in Boston was running the PBS HD channel on its 2.2
HD channel.
Now it just duplicates its 2.1 480i channel in the same 480i format. Well
I suppose some
of the quality stuff like Nova and Nature will be in HD but lost are a lot
of great programs
like Inside:_____ , Secrets of the Dead, etc. Man what a waste. The most
painful part is
I can look forward to dreck like Suzi Orman, the Three Tenors, DoOp
whatever and any
number of pacing guru infomercials. Welcome to the 'future'

I'm not sure if this is related but MPT (Maryland Public Television) has
been without PBS-HD for a while. Their X.1 has been replaced with their main
channel with HD when available(HD & upconverted) while X.2 is MPT
Select(SD) and X.3 is Spanish.

MPT claimed too many repeats as the reason they dropped PBS-HD (They were
rather repetitive).

Just may be a coincidence.

Drewdawg

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"Rick Evans" wrote in message
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I'm not sure if this is related but MPT (Maryland Public Television) has
been without PBS-HD for a while. Their X.1 has been replaced with their main
channel with HD when available(HD & upconverted) while X.2 is MPT
Select(SD) and X.3 is Spanish.

MPT claimed too many repeats as the reason they dropped PBS-HD (They were
rather repetitive).

Actually, thanks to Tantalust you can get the rest of the story he http://www.current.org/dtv/dtv0802hd.shtml
In a word the HD channel's been canned. Regarding repeats. Yes that was definitely a problem, but I was just getting
int the 'Inside' series which hadn't been repetitious.

Rick Evans
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It's pledge break time.


WTVS had a simulcast all weekend, screwing up the conclusion of
Shakespeare and Inside-- who knows what else? I think they switch back
to the HD Channel on the weekday, but have not had the chance to catch
prime time programming.

Try TheEntertainmentHub.Googlepages.com for IP Channels. Good Luck!

Yup, they're really screwing around. After nearly blanking my EPG out,
their own schedule has been a day behind what they're really showing,
prime time's pledge drive, and it's the weekend again. Plus,
Newshour's been SD.